We interrupt this (non-regularly scheduled) blogging to bring you a vacation recap

Sorry friends. I've been horribly negligent with my blog over here at ZA. See, to be truthful, I maintain many a blog in many a different areas and keeping up with them all is not always as easy as I think it should be.

In addition, we've been busy over here! Our birdie line is taking flight (sorry, couldn't help it)! We are selling Pecking Order shirts like crazy and have had a little bit of a hard time keeping up with the demand, so things like blogging have suffered a tad!

We also snuck away for a little family vacation. Well, I'm not sure if I can actually call it a vacation. Sure, there were beaches, pools and palm trees but with two kiddos under three the word "vacation" doesn't seem to be a perfect fit. However, we did have a blast showing them the ocean and building sandcastles. It was really a great time - car problems, ear infections and all!

We've got some exciting more stuff coming later this summer including some fantastic photo contests and more - so stay tuned. We're back and we're blogging better than ever!

Hope you all are having a wonderful summer. What are you all up to? Anybody take a vacation this year? Where did you go and how did you manage all the work of getting there and staying there? Let me know!

A new kind of Baby Announcement - Birth Announcement Shirts!

I think this is so cute, but I can't take all the credit, I had a customer request it and now I'm sharing it with you all.

If you're looking for a fresh, fun birth announcement we've got the onesie for you! After the new baby arrives, you can outfit them in this adorable onesie, we'll fill in all the details for you - birth weight, height, date, parents names and any siblings and then ship you this adorable shirt. Take a photo of the little one in this outfit and there you have it - all the information right there on the shirt.

I'm working on a sample later this week, but so far the response has been great. Let us know what you think. If you like this idea, let us know.

ps - Did you know? When you comment on a Zoey's Attic Blog Entry, we automatically enter you in a drawing for a free shirt. Shirts are drawn at the end of each month - so don't be shy friends. Tell us what's going on with you and you might just win free cool stuff from ZA!

Valentine's Day T-shirts and Family Fun Ideas!

I've added a couple of really cute designs for Valentine's Day this year. For some reason I've always thought Valentine's day pregnancy announcements would be really special. There's just something about all the love in the air I suppose! Regardless, here are some of my favorite new designs. What do you think?


I also looked up some fun ideas for crafts and projects to do with your little ones on this holiday - so I'll post those soon for everyone. If any of you have fun, creative ideas for this special day, leave us a comment!

Also, don't forget to enter the Zoey's Attic t-shirt giveaway and stay tuned for more great giveaways to come!

You can always check out our previous post about Valentine's Day here. Or view our entire collection of shirt for Valentines Day!

Zoey's Mommy to Be T-shirt Giveaway

Seems like everyone we know around these parts is pregnant and we couldn't be more excited! So in honor of mom's to be everywhere, we're giving away an adorable maternity/pregnancy t-shirt of your choice. If the little one is due any day, though, you could also select one of our "new mommy t-shirts".

All you have to do to enter is leave us a comment with a valid email address. Winners will be chosen at random on January 30th.

For a bonus second entry, leave a comment that you subscribed to our newsletter!

Good luck!

Great Giveaways over at Mudpies and MaryJanes

Not only is Zoey's Attic featured over here at Mudpies & Mary Jane's, but so is this great Seagate External Hard Drive giveaway. Need a place to store all your priceless digital photos or kid's artwork files? Enter the contest today!

After you enter that, make sure you enter the Zoey's Attic t-shirt slogan contest also going on during M&M's 2 weeks of giveaways! Be sure to check back at their site often for great finds!

Baby caption contest!

I thought this pic needed a clever caption/slogan and I'm not coming up with anything so what do you guys have oh clever internet folk? The winner of the caption contest will get to choose a shirt of his or her choice from Zoey's Attic. Be creative and have fun! Here's a little info to help get your creative juices flowing: they are 10 and 7 weeks old (exactly 19 days apart) and they are cousins (mine is the boy on the left with the giant towering head and his cousin, my niece, is on the right).

The caption possibilities are endless... leave your captions in the comments and win a t-shirt today!

Your Big Ideas: Pregnancy Announcement Cards

Thanks to Eden from Georgia for submitting this great pregnancy announcement suggestion about using pregnancy announcement cards to reveal a new baby's gender:

"Use a card to announce the sex of the baby. The card can be sent from the big brother/sister. "I'm a big brother-to-be of a little sister/brother." My 20 wk ultrasound is next week and I'm looking for a cute fun way to announce the sex to my friends that live in different states."

For this great suggestion, Eden will be getting a free t-shirt for the big brother to be in her family. Don't forget, if you have a great BIG pregnancy announcement idea, to submit it here or comment in the comment section of this blog. If we use it, we'll send you a free t-shirt, too!

Speaking of big announcement ideas, has anyone else come up with a fun or unique way to announce the sex of the baby on the way if you found out before the big arrival? We're currently running a contest for this big announcement, too, so if you have an idea for that, let us know how you told family and friends the new baby's gender and again, if we use your idea, we'll send you a free t-shirt.